workers with dynamic arguments

[zgbjgg]

Hello,

We recently used poolboy to manage many workers (gen_server), but we check one problem, for example, each gen_server manage a socket connection in a port, so for example, each argument for each gen_server is the port where the socket will be opened, but we want manage the workers in a pool, to checkout and checkin the workers to establish a channel, and after when the channel is released, then checkin to the pool.

Then we decide modify some parts in the code of poolboy in order to make it works, we add tests for the new addition and modify the README file to show how it works.

I hope this can be helpful for the project and for other people having the same problem.

[holsee]

bump

[bullno1]

Just want to chime in. Is this better handled at a higher level? You can checkout the worker and then give it some "initialization" parameters for example.

[saulbensach]

Hey Is this ever going to be implemented? is there other way to pass values to the workers?